| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What legendary lost city is often associated with Plato’s writings? | Atlantis | 83%
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| What global organization was founded in 1945 with the aim of preventing future world wars? | The United Nations | 81%
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| Which Caribbean country was the first in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery after a successful revolution? | Haiti | 75%
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| Which Cold War-era U.S. president once challenged the Soviet leader to a live debate inside a model American kitchen? | Richard Nixon | 71%
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| What ancient city, one of the oldest continuously inhabited in the world, is the capital of modern-day Syria? | Damascus | 69%
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| Which country experienced the “Meiji Restoration,” a period of rapid modernization in the late 19th century? | Japan | 68%
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| The first successful human spaceflight was achieved by which Soviet cosmonaut? | Yuri Gagarin | 67%
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| What was the name of Hitler’s failed invasion of the Soviet Union? | Operation Barbarossa | 62%
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| Who was the first U.S. president to live in the White House? | John Adams | 61%
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| What was the nickname of the World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen? | The Red Baron | 61%
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| Which city was the first in history to reach a population of one million? | Rome | 60%
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| What was Napoleon Bonaparte’s final place of exile? | Saint Helena | 60%
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| Which British naval commander became a national hero after defeating Napoleon's forces at the Battle of Trafalgar? | Horatio Nelson | 59%
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| Which tiny European country accidentally declared war on the U.S. during World War I, only to forget about it for 70 years? | Liechtenstein | 53%
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| Which ancient Roman emperor once declared war on the sea, ordering his soldiers to stab the waves and collect seashells as “spoils of war”? | Caligula | 45%
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| Until recently, who was the only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms? | Grover Cleveland | 41%
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| What famous battle was fought between the English and the French in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War, where King Henry V led the English to victory? | Battle of Agincourt | 40%
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| Which U.S. president made a speech so long that he caught pneumonia and died shortly after? | William Henry Harrison | 35%
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| What ancient city was so rich that its streets were reportedly paved with gold, only to be mysteriously abandoned? | El Dorado | 33%
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| Which World War II spy, nicknamed "The Limping Lady," parachuted into Nazi-occupied France and became one of the Gestapo’s most wanted? | Virginia Hall | 1%
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